Islamic Azad University, South Tehran BranchJournal of Language and Translation2008-85908320180901Systemic Functional Linguistics as a Tool of Text Analysis for Translation113544549ENEhsan Najafi DehkordiPhD Student, Department of English Translation Studies, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, IranJournal Article20180412Translation, ipso facto, is an understanding and a transferal of meaning from one language into another. Therefore, it may be fitting to conclude that a suitable semantic theory should underpin any attempt to that end. This paper advocates implementing Systemic Functional Linguistics (henceforth SFL) which subscribes to a view of language as a "meaning-potential". In fact, Halliday and Matthiessen (2004) place a high premium on the notion of function (meaning) as the fundamental building block of language and state in no uncertain terms that texts and the individual clauses comprising texts are carriers of multidimensional meanings, namely Ideational, Interpersonal, and Textual and representations of three strands of meaning rather than vessels of propositional content. However, as Halliday (2001) puts it, equivalence in translation has largely been characterized ideationally to the exclusion of interpersonal and textual meanings. This research was an endeavor to examine how effectively the latter two are handled. In order to test this, 15 M.A. translation students were selected randomly and were given the text State-Sponsored Horror in Oklahoma to translate. In the data analysis, each clause of the English text and its translation were analyzed to both identify the ideational, interpersonal, and textual meanings and classify the errors in accordance with their nature. To achieve this, recourse was made to Halliday's SFL which offers a rich repertoire of metalinguistic tools for text analysis from an analytical angle. The results of the study were congruous with Halliday’s statement. <br />
Metafunction
Metalanguage
Systemic functional linguistics
Text analysis
Translation skill
http://ttlt.azad.ac.ir/article_544549_9e8872aa7abdc9550779df413a7bea11.pdfIslamic Azad University, South Tehran BranchJournal of Language and Translation2008-85908320180901Toward the Development of a Model of Political and Socio-Economic Factors Impacting the Motivation of Iranian EFL learners to Learn English1528544550ENNaser salehiPhD Candidate in TEFL, Department of Foreign Languages, Qeshm Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qeshm, Iran0000-0002-0973-1737Seyyed Ayatollah RazmjooProfessor in TEFL, Department of Foreign Languages, Shiraz University, Shiraz, IranJournal Article20180826The present study was an attempt to identify a model of the political and socio-economic factors influencing Iranian EFL learners’ motivation to learn English. To achieve this goal, 20 EFL learners studying at the Iran Language Institute in Darab, Iran were invited for an interview session and a questionnaire was then designed based on the interview findings. Piloted testing of the survey was conducted among 221 EFL learners. Exploratory factor analysis was then run to identify the underlying factors and as a result, eight factors proved to have high loadings. Subsequently, the final 26-item questionnaire was distributed among 375 EFL learners and they were asked to rate the items on a Likert scale. Analyzing responses revealed the most influencing factor as ‘emigration’ and the least important one as ‘attitudes toward English and its utilitarian values’. To confirm the factor structure of the instrument, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used. The goodness of fit measures was utilized to see whether the proposed model fitted the data. The obtained fit indices including GFI, RMSEA, SRMR, NFI, Chi-square/df proved to be acceptable suggesting the fit of the model. <br />
English as Foreign Language (EFL)
Motivation
Political factors
Socio-economic status
http://ttlt.azad.ac.ir/article_544550_86128e3659cee1193416fe6af28a0113.pdfIslamic Azad University, South Tehran BranchJournal of Language and Translation2008-85908320180901Contrastive Analysis of Political News Headlines Translation According to Berman’s Deformative Forces2941544551ENshaghayegh sadeghiDepartment of Persian Literature and Foreign languages, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, IranBahram MowlaieAssistant Professor, Department of Persian Literature and Foreign languages, Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch Tehran, IranJournal Article20181117The present research aimed at investigating the deformation of political news headlines translation between English and Persian News Agencies based on Berman`s deformative system. For this purpose, 100 news headlines in English were selected from BBC, Reuters, Associated Press, France, France 24, Financial Times, Business Times, New York Times, Politico, Guardian, CNN, Bloomberg, Middle East Eye, Euronews and Foreign Policy. The translations of the same news were selected from prominent Persian news agencies such as Fars, ISNA, IRNA, ILNA, Tasnim, Tabnak and Ghatreh. The headlines were selected from the 2015 archives of these news agencies. They were extracted, tabulated and compared to their Persian equivalents. The comparison was performed based on the 12 deformative forces of Berman’s (2000) model. Subsequently, in order to have a comprehensive view, a Chi-square test was run to see whether the frequencies of deformative strategies used were statistically meaningful. The results revealed that news headlines do undergo deformation in translation. Rationalization, expansion, destruction of linguistic patterning, qualitative impoverishment and quantitative impoverishment turned out to be the most dominant deformative forces. The frequencies of the rest of the tendencies were statistically significant. The study has implications for translators, researchers and translator trainers. <br />
Deformative Tendency
News Headline
Source Text
Target Text
Translation
http://ttlt.azad.ac.ir/article_544551_27434530703f0ae25d65028328ce2bd1.pdfIslamic Azad University, South Tehran BranchJournal of Language and Translation2008-85908320180901On the Impact of Two Input-Oriented Techniques and Perceptual Learning Styles on Causative Construction Development: The Case of Iranian Learners of English4356544554ENMotahar TavakolyPhD Student of Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Department of Foreign Languages, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, IranGholamreza KianyAssociate Professor of Applied Linguistics, Department of English Language Teaching,
Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, IranMohammad R. HashemiAssistant Professor of Applied Linguistics Applied Linguistics, Department of Foreign Languages, Kharazmi University, Tehran, IranJournal Article20181117This study sought to investigate the effect of the two input types interactionally modified input (IM) and textual input enhancement (TIE), the impact of a commonly used learning styles taxonomy as the Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic learning styles (VAK) by itself as well as the interactional effect of perceptual learning styles and input types on the causative construction development of EFL learners. To this end, 120 female Iranian EFL learners from three language schools in Tehran participated in this research and were divided into two experimental groups of 60. The study adopted a pretest-posttest design and learner’s grammar knowledge was measured before and after providing them with instructional treatment through IM input and TIE techniques. The data were analyzed through a two-way ANOVA. The results of the study indicated that IM input was significantly more effective than TIE in promoting the participants' knowledge of the target structure. The comparison of the posttest means scores also revealed that the VAK style was not an influential factor in second language learners’ target form knowledge, while a significant interaction between input type and learning styles turned out to have a beneficial effect if they synchronize in classrooms. <br />
Causative construction
Interactionally modified input
Textual input enhancement
VAK learning style
http://ttlt.azad.ac.ir/article_544554_6d35b26e80f1e07981d4d075dbbe4043.pdfIslamic Azad University, South Tehran BranchJournal of Language and Translation2008-85908320180901A Comparative Study on the English to Persian Translation of Hedges in the Abstracts of M.A. Theses in English Translation Studies5767544552ENElham AzarbadMA candidate in English Language Translation Studies, Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch, Tehran, IranVahid GhahramanAssistant Professor of Applied linguistics/TESL at Iran Encyclopedia Compiling Foundation, Tehran, IranJournal Article20181117The purpose of this study was to investigate the distribution of functions and forms of hedging devices in the abstracts of master’s theses in two languages (English and Persian) written by Iranian students. To this end, 70 abstracts of M.A. theses were selected as the corpus. The total number of words in both English and Persian abstracts were 19,933 and 23,073, respectively. The categories of hedges were extracted based on Hyland’s taxonomy of hedge. The data were analysed using a number of Chi-Square analyses. The results showed that there was a significant difference between English and Persian texts in the use of hedging. There were more hedging devices in English abstracts, while the Persian versions employed fewer hedge devices. The differences were interpreted to be related to the degree of awareness, purpose, cultural background of the learners, etc. The findings of this study can be helpful in teaching academic writing, teaching Persian to speakers of other languages, and translation instructors. <br />
Form
Function
Hedging
Metadiscourse
http://ttlt.azad.ac.ir/article_544552_81d51396644b695cebbd0acdbfd54d5c.pdfIslamic Azad University, South Tehran BranchJournal of Language and Translation2008-85908320180901Lexical Translation in Movies: A Comparative Analysis of Persian Dubs and Subtitles through CDA6979544553ENSaber NoieDepartment of English Translation, Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, Islamic Azad University, Tehran IranFariba JafarpourPhD Candidate in Persian Literature, Department of Languages, Faculty of Persian Literature, Islamic Azad University North Branch, Tehran, IranJournal Article20181117The impact of translated movies has already been emphasized by quiet a number of researchers. The present study aimed to investigate the strategies of the Iranian subtitlers and dubbers of English movies in rendering English words. To this aim, three theoretical frameworks were employed: The researchers first used the strategies proposed by Venuti (2012) and Newmark's (1991) classification and they then employed Van Dijk’s (1999) Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) model in part dominance. The aim was to find which strategies were the most prevalently used by Iranian subtitlers and dubbers and to see which model fitted these attempts the best. The movie The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was chosen for this study. Through a qualitative content analysis, the distribution of strategies was found and reported in frequencies and percentages and were cross-compared between the three frameworks. The result showed which strategies of each model were used more. The findings of this study may pave the way for future research in literary translation and help translation instructors and translation trainees as well in translation classes.
Critical discourse analysis (CDA)
Domestication
Dub
Foreignization
Subtitle
http://ttlt.azad.ac.ir/article_544553_d4b5c1a4b33d3f68dd64b933776880c2.pdfIslamic Azad University, South Tehran BranchJournal of Language and Translation2008-85908320180901On the Emergence of Scientific Grammar in Iran8192544556ENAli karimi FirozjaeiDepartment of Linguistics and Persian Language, Payameh Nour University, TehranAli Asghar Shahriari BovandDepartment of Linguistics and Persian Language, Payameh Nour University, TehranGholamreza AskariPhD Student, Department of Linguistics and Persian Language, Payameh Nour University, TehranJournal Article20181117Writing the grammar of a language is one of the most significant outputs of linguistic studies. In Iran, it is Avicenna (Ibn-e Sina) who is credited with the first such compilation of the Persian language. Understanding the weaknesses associated with the traditional trends of grammar writing in Iran, contemporary Iranian linguists adopted the modern Western approach following the Chomskyan Turn thus attempting to work out a grammar for Persian. Accordingly, this study investigated the scientific theory of grammar writing in Iran through a descriptive-analytic method, using the transformational-generative theory. In addition to reviewing the stances of Iranian grammarians, the paper specifies and describes grammars of different kinds through a typological approach so as to attain a new classification of grammar writing paradigms in Iran. The findings of this research show that grammar writing approaches in Iran are divided into three paradigms, namely, traditional, structural, and scientific.
Generative-transformational theory
Iran
Persian Language
Scientific grammar
http://ttlt.azad.ac.ir/article_544556_f1c66c230da9289c74db2c2806560f05.pdf